Teen Is Legally Euthanized For Depression In The Netherlands

Teen Is Legally Euthanized For Depression In The Netherlands Jason Bermas via Alt-Market

Do we even value human life anymore?

Dutch girl, 17, who was sexually abused, is legally euthanized at her home by ‘end-of-life’ clinic because she felt her life was unbearable due to depression. About 4.4% of deaths in The Netherlands are by legal euthanasia.

Independent reporter Jason Bermas covers the story in the video below:

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Dutch girl, 17, who was sexually abused at 11 and raped as a 14-year-old is legally allowed to die after contacting ‘end-of-life’ clinic because she felt her life was unbearable due to depression.

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for Faith Wire also produced a piece about this very disturbing piece of information. Please keep in mind this young girl was not fatally ill nor showing any signs of life threatening illness – she was simply depressed and feeling beat by her circumstances.

A 17-year-old who was raped multiple times as a child has been ended her life after doctors agreed that she was going through unbearable emotional anguish and allowed her to starve herself to death.

Noa Pothoven had experienced severe post-traumatic stress disorder, depression and anorexia ever since the vicious sexual attacks which occurred when she was aged 11, 12 and 14.

In some final remarks before her death, the teenager penned one last Instagram post on May 30, in which she explained her reasons for choosing to die.

“Within a maximum of 10 days I will die. After years of fighting and fighting it is finished,” she wrote in the heartbreaking post. “I have now stopped eating and drinking for a while, and after many conversations and reviews it has been decided that I will be released because my suffering is unbearable.”

Trapped in a pit of despair and depression, Pothoven said that initially contacted the Life End Clinic in The Hague without telling her loved ones because she was so ashamed. She was denied the right to end her life at this point, but her anorexia continued to worsen.

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